A Winterport woman was hospitalized briefly Tuesday after the car she was driving rear-ended another vehicle on Interstate 95 in Bangor.

Traffic in the southbound lane of the interstate near the Kenduskeag Stream had slowed at about 2:30 p.m., but motorist Laura Anderson, 20, apparently wasn’t paying attention and her car struck the rear end of the SUV ahead of her, said Sgt. Tom Perkins of the Maine State Police.

Anderson’s head struck her car’s windshield and she suffered lacerations to her face and may have broken her nose, Perkins said. She was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center, although Perkins said he spoke to her later Tuesday and that it appeared she was going to be released from the hospital that same day.

Perkins said he was not able to determine what had caused the motorists to slow before the accident occurred.

An Enfield man claimed he was threatened and provoked before he started punching another man at Husson College in Bangor on Monday night, although witnesses said he kept punching even when the other man fell to the ground, apparently unconscious.

Matthew Mulligan, 19, told Bangor police that another 19-year-old man challenged him to a fight and threatened to shoot him at the Hart Hall dormitory.

Mulligan said that the other man raised his hand as if to punch him so Mulligan punched him first. He hit him three times until the other man fell and then another two times when the man was on the ground, according to the police report.

Several witnesses saw the fight, including one who told Bangor police Detective Eric Tall that the man on the ground “appeared out of it and was just lying on the ground twitching and coughing up blood.”

Tall summoned Mulligan on a charge of assault.

On Monday morning a resident of Somerset Street in Bangor discovered that someone had painted two vertical white stripes on the trunk of her car. She told Bangor police Officer Kerry Libby on Monday evening that the stripes would not wash off. Cost of removal was estimated at $200.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Doug Kesseli